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vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Download Links and Release Notes

Today, It’s been a great news to all the Virtualization enthusiast that VSAN is announced as Generally available and which will included as part of vSphere 5.5 Update 1. This update includes most of the vCloud Suite products, including VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). VMware Virtual SAN – Virtual SAN 5.5 is a new hypervisor-converged storage tier that extends the vSphere Hypervisor to pool server-side magnetic disks (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). By clustering server-side HDDs and SSDs, Virtual SAN creates a distributed shared datastore designed and optimized for virtual environments.Virtual SAN is a standalone product that is sold separate from vSphere and requires its own license key

Virtual SAN does not support clusters that are configured with ESXi hosts earlier than 5.5 Update 1. Make sure all hosts in the Virtual SAN cluster are upgraded to ESXi 5.5 Update 1 before enabling Virtual SAN.

Below are the Direct download links the products which are updated with vSphere 5.5 Update 1

What’s New with vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1

vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client.

vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2.

There are many issues which are reported on the previous versions is fixed on vCenter server 5.5 Update 1. Read the release notes.

What’s New with ESXi 5.5 Update 1

VMware Virtual SAN – Virtual SAN 5.5 is a new hypervisor-converged storage tier that extends the vSphere Hypervisor to pool server-side magnetic disks (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). By clustering server-side HDDs and SSDs, Virtual SAN creates a distributed shared datastore designed and optimized for virtual environments. Virtual SAN is a standalone product that is sold separate from vSphere and requires its own license key

About Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen

Mohammed Raffic is a subject Matter Expert of VMware Virtualization technology and an author, technical guy and blogger focusing on Virtualization and Cloud computing.Independent author and Founder of VMwarearena.com He has more than 6 years of high level knowledge in Remote infrastructure services, consulting, designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware Virtualization technology.